Improvement in washing-machines



UNTTED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JOHN MYERS, OF FREEPOR'I, ILLINOIS.

IMPRovEMi-:NT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Spccliication forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,358, dated July 6,1875; application filed May 17, 1875.

To all whom 'it may concern Beit known that I, JOHN MYERS, of Freeport,in the county of Stephenson and State of lllinois, have invented.lcertain Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is aspecification:

This invention has for its object the providing of a simpler, andconsequently cheaper, foundation or base-piece in the class ofwashing-machines ot which the one patented by William It. Walton, July22, 1873, is an example; and its nature will be fully understood fromthe subjoined description and the accompanying drawing, in whichdrawing- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a central vertical section, andFig. 3 a bottom view ot' my improved base-piece.

Like letters made use of in said drawing indicate like parts in all thefigures in which they are used.

usually made of such size and form as will fit the tub in which it is tobe used, and its washing-surface has generally been formed of a seriesot' radial rollers, some long and some short, with stationary raisedribs placed between and filling up the spaces between the rollers. Myinvention consists partly in substituting for the roller-surfacementioned a metallic plate which shall completely cover the basepiece,and in giving that plate the surface which is more particularlydescribed below. In the drawing, this metallic plate is indicated by theletter A. Soldered on or stamped into this plate are raised ribs B, allradiating from the center of the base-piece, of varying lengths andinverted V shape. The washing surface of the base-piece is thus dividedinto alternate elevations and depressions, resembling somewhat thecorrugated face of the ordinary Washboard. that this form of coverwill-perform all the fluinctions of the rollers, and the additional oneof exerting friction upon the clothes as they are forced along by thefollower, and it is obvious that it is much simpler and cheaper inconstruction.

Another branch of my invention consists in perforating this met-alliecover with numerous holes, o o, which are located between the ribs,

and in cutting away the wooden bottom D ot' the base-piece under suchholes, as shown at c c. By this'means the water is given freecirculation through the base-piece, and free exist is `provided for thesediment or settlings which naturally seek the bottom ot' the vessel.Instead of cutting away the bottom D, it may K be made in two layers,the upper one being in In machines of this class the base-piece ispieces which shall be so placed thatl they will come directly under theribs and not. interfere with the passage of the water through the holesc.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to secure byLetters Patent, and claim as new, is-

The combination of the metallic cover A,

vand the wood bottom D, when the former is provided withy the raisedradial ribs B, and perforated with the openings c c, and the latter iscut away under such openings, substantially as specih'ed.

JOHN MYERS.

Witnesses W. SCOTT AGNEY, CHARLES RErrzELL.

It is believed.

